Subject: TURKEY: 1/11 Luncheon in New York with the NEW U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
From: "Meghan Hagberg" <[email-masked]>
To: "Meghan Hagberg" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:22:15 -0500

The Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) is pleased to announce a luncheon discussion with

The Honorable Francis J. Ricciardone
NEW Ambassador of the United States to Turkey
U.S. Embassy Ankara

Tuesday, January 11, 2011
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
New York City

Hosting opportunities are available. For more information please contact Meghan Hagberg at 212-490-0460 or [email-masked]

Biographical Information

Francis J. Ricciardone is the newly-designated Ambassador of the United States to Turkey. He previously served as Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy is Kabul, Afghanistan. Ambassador Ricciardone was the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt from 2005 to 2008 and U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau from 2002 to 2005. He has served two multinational military deployments: as Chief of the Civilian Observer Unit of the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Desert, and as Political Advisor to the U.S. and Turkish Commanding Generals of Operation Provide Comfort, based in Turkey and operating in Iraq. At the U.S. Department of State, he directed the 9/11 Task Force of the Coalition Against Terrorism and served as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Special Coordinator for the Transition of Iraq.

Ambassador Ricciardone graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1973. Upon graduation, he received a Fulbright Scholarship for teaching and study in Italy. He speaks Arabic, Turkish, French and Italian.

Meghan Hagberg
Senior Program Officer
Business Council for International Understanding
1212 Avenue of the Americas, 10th Floor
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